<ul><li>A group in California's San Francisco Bay Area is using the Meshtastic software to form a mesh network of LoRa nodes.</li><li>They are able to send messages to San Francisco, 54 miles away, using only a few milliwatts of power and a tiny solar-powered computer that costs about $30.</li><li>By using built-in WiFi instead of a separate LoRa radio chip, they save cost at the expense of long distance but gain extra bandwidth.</li><li>The project aims to keep it simple by broadcasting each message to all the neighbors they can reach, without any fancy routing.</li></ul>

Python Radio 36: Mesh Networking

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